@Phil Rock and roll came from Jazz which originated from the answer and call style of music brought from enslaved Africans. So yes, those are of African origin and they just evolved in America.
I remember reading an old japanese book on the same subject. It spoke of combat but it also went on on how rythm permeates everything in life. What I find cool is how it's such a human way of measuring what you do, is not only a sound, or a movement, it's habits, tone of voice in a conversation, patterns of thought. I like how this video illustrates the broadness of the actual word and how surreal it must be to live among people that integrate harmonious rythms to their very core culture.
I don't know if science has proove for my idea. But I think , before our ancestors were able to speak, they used their bodies: Hunting, gathering, using first tools. Why shouldn't they have first used rhythmic body movements for communication? I think that's the origin of rhythm and dance in all our cultures. Or maybe that's just my Imagination. 🙂
Thank YOU Africa!!! You teach us the real thing! I lived there and since I came back I call Africa a "reality maker". I hope we could follow these footsteps, values and most of all radical truth!
Watch this off and on for nearly 10 years after we found it by accident. And everytime I watch it 'I cry at the beauty, fragility, resilience & conviction. We will not let them cut the throat of our culture. We will live. Like grasslands or the endless sky- ancient people & ancient culture live with this joy and very little materially being pushed to the margins.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5 💙✨ Everyоne whо calls оn the name оf the Lоrd will be saved. Rоmans 10:13 💙✨ Fоr with the heart оne believes untо righteоusness, and with the mоuth cоnfessiоn is made untо salvatiоn. Romans 10:10 ✝❤
I feel all percussionists should be required to watch this throughout their formal education. It is humbling and brings you back to earth. Thankful to watching this with my little boy.
Oh yes its very earthly and spiritual the bible is full of music and wine why you think all of their eyes was blood red lol, playing that good music and drinking that good wine.
it’s so crazy how across cultures and continents humans share an innate sense of rhythm and can let our bodies become one with music. music and dance really are universal languages
That's because, according to DNA, we all come from Africa, and drums used to be as ubiquitous as cell phones. :) UA-cam doesn't let people post links, but check out the band "Black Uhuru" song "Whole World is Africa." :)
@@5pandas512 That's rather rude Oskar, I am sure she is quite happy living where she is. I hope people don't tease you for your name and suggest you go live in a garbage can on Sesame street for being grouchy... :)
@@5pandas512 you posted this exact same comment to another person who was simply praising african culture. why dont you get a life? maybe you wont be so angry online
Stunning. Could any one of us living today in the modern ways imagine how harmonious and pure and uplifting it would be to live this way? And the sheer genius of doing everything in rhythm!?! Absolutely tremendous? The village as one big family passing all this down through the ages? This is living a history in the present while creating a future. To live this way in such wisdom.....must be heaven on earth.
just think about how much rhythm you use in today's living ...barley, none , if any. Typing, speaking, walking. Not counting if you are a musician. People in the western culture rarely come together over rhythm unless it a concert. I mean it's such an important part of life and we simply threw it away. So sad.@@wilcoxdaniel9825
I was listening to Mongolian/Altai throat singing. This came up on my recommended as well. It was interesting and a nice added perspective to what I was already watching.
I am African and drums do something to me. The rhythm brings life to my veins. It speaks when words are not being said. It's frequency, it's vibrations, it's ontological mathematics. It makes us human!
My two and a half year old loves this video. He's really into all kinds of music and this video is one of his favorites. I guess rhythm speaks to all ages!
This film is addicting. The Malinke in particular are badly damaged by the slave trade. The film testifies to the great strength of the culture of this tribe, which has endured the worst persecution. Wonderful!!!!!
@@sebastienh1100 In fact, the Malinke were persecuted, including by other tribes who also benefited from the slave trade and worked with the Europeans. After the persecution came the exploitation, in which various actors were able to earn a lot of money. But the fact is that I am a musician and musicologist myself and wanted to pay the film a big compliment. You're being a little hair-splitting with my good intentions. For your information: www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/atlasderversklavung2021.pdf
everything about the film is mesmerising. no other word for it. love their concept of rhythm. if you extend that to societies and social environments, it talks about cohesion. on an individual level, it reminds you that every move you make is meaningful, and every step in the way is meant to pace yourself - that’s rhythm.
The reason why everything has rhythm is because rhythm is the sound of order and out of order comes art without order is chaos. This film is a masterpiece.
Today in a primary school of Valencia, Spain, a bouch of little 6 years old children enjoy your video very much, Mr. Roebers you have to be proud about it :) thank you for this master piece, my favourit documentary ever! May God bless you.
A dear Deaf friend of mine died last year - and in his FB page, he mentioned this video: 'Our ancestor’s true blood of line. Keep your rhythm a live'. Rest in Peace and in rhythm my friend. Miss you & love you to eternity.
BEAUTIFUL! I wonder if these people realize how much raw talent they have. Even the little ones, they seem to move and dance and play the music instinctually. The sense of community is so nice too!
This reminds me of the year I spent in Guinea when I was a teen. The Malinke and Susu people stayed in my heart forever as the best prophets of the idea that music is life. ❤️💛💚
This just proofs with music how we are still all connected to Africa, is insane cuz when you listen music from lots of different genres or parts of the world you can still listen some of those ryhtms even if is a little bit
@@acepumpkin5442 The Europeans use african rhythms heavily. Every American and European music you hear, except "classical" music, has African rhythms at it's roots. I think you just want to be racist.
This made me tear up, I feel so proud to be human sometimes. It can be easy to be stripped away from that pride, but when I'm able to feel it, it's overwhelming
I don’t remember how many times I’ve come back to this over the years. But yea this is my culture y’all! Folks sometimes wonder why blacks are so good at rhythm; it’s because we’re born into it. As he rightly said, everything we do is rhythm. Nothing is done that is not rhythmic. Btw, we are told that music is rhythm, and rhythm is music. FYI, in African traditional dance, the drummer is not the one who dictates the rhythm, and it’s the dancer. If the dancer notices that the drummer is not picking up the pace, he’ll increase his movements in such a way that the drummer will understand that he’s falling behind. It’s the same way we do in church when playing drums with a lead voice of singers. Anyway, if music runs through our veins it’s because we’re born into rhythm.
Right. Rhythm gives the other parts of us the cue to go. The beat of the left foot signals the right. Without rhythm, we can’t know whose turn it is. That’s harmony. That’s Africa.
same here, i keep and keep coming back to this fine little film - i was not born into it, or if so, in a completely different way - i live in germany and i disvovered african music during the mid 70s, when i bought a record with traditional music on a flea market - at first i was disappointed, because it sounded so very alien to me, haha - but i was young and curious and i kept listening until i by and by began to understand a little here and there - then i had my first fave song and from there i went on - now i love the whole record - during the 80s and 90s we had a kind of wave of african bands and musicians coming over here and i saw countless of them live and was never disappointed - great musicans, brilliant singers and excellent dancers and performers, not a single fail, yessss... :-) anyway, my perception of music is not too far from the one shown here, of course do i have a european approach - but the inspiration is there and it´s nice (btw. i have been a reggae musician for several decades)... love and greetings from germany 🙋♂️
@@friesiamans1966wow that’s great. So I guess you’ve heard Ladysmith Black Mambazo? They are my favorite South African Acapella group. Well, you’re a lucky man. Peace out!
@@marcustraore545 oh yes, i have heard them, they were among the first african artists that i heard, even before paul simon made them world-famous... the second african record after the one with tradional music was one with south african jive - i loved it almost instantly and even started playing in that style - in the late 70s i even formed a band and we played on punk festivals and many punks jumped and gyrated merrily to that sound without even knowing what it was, haha... some year ago or so i finally learned, that the sax player on that record, west nkosi, had also produced ladysmith black mambazo before they went to america - i knew them already from the third african record that i had "the soweto sampler" by the zensor, a guy from berlin, who went to soweto to record a load of garage bands... i must say, i craved for african music, but in those days it was almost impossible to buy any here in germany... the turning point came with king sunny adé´s live performance on german tv in 83 - hammer! after that african bands galore! saw him live two times, saw the mahotella queens live, saw omou sangaré live, sometimes i can hardly believe that this really happened.... :-) i still wish to see rokia traoré live - you are a traoré? you are not related to her, are you? nowadays my fave south african artist might be busi mhlongo, who i disvovered a few years ago - sadly she´s not alive anymore, she was such an impressive person and performer, i wish, i had seen her live in person... to round it up, back in the early 90s i bought another south african record, a compilation of songs by different choirs like ladysmith black mambazo, mainly old shellac recordings, the oldest from somewhat 1911 or so, among them the original recording of "mbube" (=lion), after which the whole genre was named, but also some newer ones and ladysmith black mambazo... :-) oh, boy, there is so much to tell, haha - one of my latest personal discoveries are blinky bill from nairobi ("jam now - simmer down"), and dr. namadingo ("mango") from malawi - when i looked for pictures of him i found out that he played here in germany in 2018! i wish i had known him then already - he was in hannover, not more than 30 kms from here - - - faint! you are right: i am a blessed man, all this enriched my life! thank you for your kind answer, it´s much appreciated... 🙋♂️
I see the origin of Hip hop!! It's in the DNA it comes naturally every Black American need to see this video. The origin of Hip hop!! Amazing moma Africa. From Oklahoma.
Five years ago my music teacher showed me this video and I was very amazed. I haven’t done music for many years but I’m picking it up very recently. This video is a great inspiration for me to rededicate my life after depression👍
Life used to be simple. We used to live in harmony with nature. For every small advance in society we have lost so much. We have lost not only the purity of nature, but the purity of community. We are afraid of each other now. I hope for a world where we can return to our tribal roots and live in harmony again, just as our ancestors once did. A society built on constant growth is a disease which will destroy the world if left unchecked.
We evolved on our ability to kill each 'other', we always were afraid of each 'other', we are evolved to fear the 'other'. People who do not fear the 'other' have come to realize they are the same as the 'other', meaning they are still afraid of things they still consider 'other'. To get over this fear is to either conquer instinct and evolution, or know as much about 'other' things as you can until they are no longer 'other'.
@@sirsnek6562 too simple... Your idea is too simple. It acts as if there are no other influences on human behavior than some sort of hard encoded program that tells us, "act this way, don't act that way". I don't want to argue with you. I also don't want to spoil the truth that is in your statement. Instead I just hope that you are someone who believes in humanity. Who thinks whatever barriers that we face are surmountable! Take care!
@@chompers11 I'm forced to rethink my generalized position on this due to what Kyu Kyu said, but what I said still holds true for wars accross time and place. Fear has been part of every war we know of, it is inevitble. Without fear of the other, there isn't hate of the other. And we *know* there has been LOTS of hate of the other, whether its: the wars of the Byzantine Empire (anywhere that borders the mediterranian sea), the wars of the Roman Empire (same thing but even more), the wars of the Rashidun Caliphate (middle east, north africa, iberian pininsula (the reason spanish culture and language is slightly arabic)), the wars of the Ottoman Empire (basically what rome had and a little more east, less west), the wars of the Mongol Empire (holy hell they almost took over the world) and ALLLL of the wars for territory and dominance that took place within the mountains surrounding 'China', and all the native american wars (the ones between native americans, as well as the ones against europeans). Every single one filled with hate for 'the less developed/entitled' and 'the barbaric invaders'. Fear was indeed exploited in areas where information was more easily shared (relevant right now), and that wasn't just euro. We may not have always been afraid, all the time, of anything we didn't understand, but we were always afraid of each other when we put on different jerseys... and for good reason: they were afraid too.
Je suis profondément touchée par ce chef d'oeuvre. La mise en scène, les couleurs, les rythmes et movements. Cela évoques mes souvenirs de l'Afrique avec les Mandinka, la danse, mes promenades dans la brousse. Cette documentation doit être en Guinée, où, â mon avis, ce trouves la culture la plus riche des Mandinka. Très, très beau. Merci beaucoup. Je suis fascinée!
I am from srbia, westerners caling balcan but by the ancient Serbian name is helm and its door of the worlds we call!!!anyway I am very impressed by the power of those people in video , I see they are worriers who live in harmony with nature of this world !!! unfortunately west European people in their chase for welth and money they destroyed many nations and cultures wich speek about their own culture !! but I am glad this African people survived colonization of African continent !!greetings from srbija !!
+MrDex369 U said it well >not just N eu HOWEVER capitalist CLASS have LONG cannibalized our planet and PeopleS migrate away DISPLACED by war & its fall out i was displaced after ww2 as a child { uk }THEN I HAD issue w/that but many a friend from every where now SHARING AMAZING TEACHINGS dance & custom MAY the Human Family learn what is truly precious & priceless b4 nothing remains of OUR collective striving >LET us END the longest running war in history the class war < .
Lorsqu’on fait du jogging sans les écouteurs on se rends compte qu’en écoutant le rythme de notre course on se fatigue moins. Des fois même avec les écouteurs le cerveau réplique automatiquement le rythme de notre course. "Tout c’est des rythme". Le chants des oiseaux le matin, celui des sauterelles le soir même lorsqu’on mâche un chewing-gum on le fait à un rythme. Je vous souhaite une belle vie sous un rythme qui vous convient, a chacun son rythme ne suit pas celui de autres 🌹
Just happen to wonder what we are, just a bit, and soon you realize we’re all African :) (sorry for very likely utter fucked up English, frog team here…)
@@semabera2485 Most of them are not performing. They are living. Different scenes are woven together seamlessly. All scenes are beautiful, but the one(s) who choreographed this video need to be applauded.
Absolutely stunning beautiful film and music construction that shows how LIFE is movement is rhythm. We have forgotten this in many countries. Very revitalising tonic for Western depressive malaise. Thank you 🙏🏽
Natural people who live with the Earth. The rythym of their life is amazing. I love traditional, tribal and natural sounds of the cultures of our World. Nothing false or fake about it. The energy of the movements draws you in. This was a real treat to find. Awesome.
The first world steals everything from Africa...its music, its dance, and its resources. The ravages of colonialism and neocolonialism leave their ugly mark. We owe so much to this continent, but we still continue to take. I feel the rhythm...the rhythm of revolution, do you?
This video shows me how we coexist with nature through rhythm. The wind has a rhythm, water has a rhythm, trees and grass when the wind blows has a rhythm. The crackling of a fire has rhythm. Be in rhythm ❤️💛💚✊🏾🖤
Wow that was breathtaking. This is living. So much seems dead, unreal around us. This is what being alive looks like. Thank you for making my heart beat.
Je suis une professeur brésilienne et j'enseigne l'histoire. Je suis également percussionniste d'un rythme afro brésilien appelé maracatu. Je regarde cette vidéo depuis 11 ans. Il a été mon inspiration pendant 11 ans. Merci.
Thank you for keeping your culture alive. I come from what I feel is a cultureless country or a country with toxic culture and it makes me feel very hopeful for human life to know that there are people who know the worth of keeping this alive!
I keep returning to this, for anyone who wants to understand rhythm, or timing, this is music in it's best form, African music influences all music, we all came from Africa and even Classical artists learned music from the basics. The Rhythm of life itself, thanks to Africa!
Celtics have their music with that Stonehenge has an older age than the Pyramidvof Giza. The first rhythm as Walter Russell and perhaps Tesla would agree-the heart beat as the first rhythm we first listen.
@@Katharsis540 totally agreed on the heart, its our inner beat and it's why we walk or run or swim the way we do, we make sure the part of our body that is most important stays as steady as possible, the heart also gives our other senses an inborn metronome, so music and rhythms are the earliest forms of entertainment, before, after, or alongside humor?
Music at the heart is the realest. Before black people where allowed to break through with their music in the mainstream, white america was just listening to shitty church music. Even the banjo is African. Also thank African rhythm and heart for rock n roll, jazz, blues, funk and literally all the great music of the 1900s. Something deep within us needed these beats that our African brothers brought with them through all the years of hard ship. Words can’t describe how this vid makes me feel
Desse maravilhoso documentário eu tirei algumas importantes lições para a minha vida percussiva (que me influenciaram e influenciarão para sempre)!!! Parabéns a cultura Malinke e aos mestres percussionistas do documentário!!! (Daniel Cartaxo Penalva).
Native American over here. Anishinaabe - Ojibwe saulteux The shells on the speakers necklace. We call those The great miigis shells (cowrie shell; also spelled megis) Story goes they appeared out of the sea and brought warmth and light to the people by reflecting the rays of the sun. At this time, the people were given the great-rite the Midewiwin in which life was restored and prolonged. The oral tradition also tells that a powerful miigis went into the sea and then returned with a prophecy for the people. According to this prophecy, the people needed to move west to keep their traditional ways alive. The prophecy told of a time when there would be new settlements by the sea of a people who would be incapable of understanding the traditional ways. This video has been somewhat of a landmarker for me... Something I look for, to know I'm in the right place. No matter where I am I look for the rythme. Miigwetch! Thanks for reading
@@nertiasolutions5386 the shell and the speaker remind me of a prophecy and teaching called "the seven fires prophecy" It's collection of stories from roughly 400-600 years old, over a span of a couple generations within this time in the past, predictions for the future of our home land were made and they have all come true so far except for the 7th and last fire/era. These prophecies are long so I will only list the last one and those who are privy to it may find the other six by looking up "the seven fires prophecy" ... The Seventh Prophet that came to the people long ago was said to be different from the other prophets. This prophet was described as "young and had a strange light in his eyes" and said: In the time of the Seventh Fire New People will emerge. They will retrace their steps to find what was left by the trail. Their steps will take them to the Elders who they will ask to guide them on their journey. But many of the Elders will have fallen asleep. They will awaken to this new time with nothing to offer. Some of the Elders will be silent because no one will ask anything of them. The New People will have to be careful in how they approach the Elders. The task of the New People will not be easy. If the New People will remain strong in their quest the Water Drum of the Midewiwin Lodge will again sound its voice. There will be a rebirth of the Anishinabe Nation and a rekindling of old flames. The Sacred Fire will again be lit. It is this time that the light skinned race will be given a choice between two roads. One road will be green and lush, and very inviting. The other road will be black and charred, and walking it will cut their feet. In the prophecy, the people decide to take neither road, but instead to turn back, to remember and reclaim the wisdom of those who came before them. If they choose the right road, then the Seventh Fire will light the Eighth and final Fire, an eternal fire of peace, love, brotherhood and sisterhood. If the light skinned race makes the wrong choice of the roads, then the destruction which they brought with them in coming to this country will come back at them and cause much suffering and death to all the Earth's people.
@@nertiasolutions5386 I think it means we are all connected in ways we can no longer easily recognise, that when we loose the ability to see these things it will become very difficult to resonate with eachother and therefore making things fall out of harmony and overall creating a rythme that lacks the fundamental principles of good music or life Like because all is rythme and things have been set In motion. From time in memorial... to forget Is to replace. like the original teachings are all about movement and tempo and responsibilities. And we'll loose those around the same time we are able to see how we're all one family. No matter how big the tree every leafs roots lead to the same foundation... Earth and water, Humour comes from the Latin word humor meaning moisture And humility comes from the Latin word humus meaning earth. Stuff like this is how we forget the spirituality of our ancestors... The flow or flux of time. Lux is Latin for light. Might aswell list the Latin word for air/breath as it also can mean soul... Anima leading to words like "animate / in-anima-te" Movement is life, study how life has does and will move and we can create a song that never ends, in a good way s
There are stories that say god near the beginning of time took the four parts of mother earth (wind water fire air) and she breathed them into the megis shell, in order to create the Anishinaabe! This shell is called the money cowrie in English as it was used to trade with Nigerians in the 16th century to trade there, as it was a tradition form of currency there aswell as in Asia before coins.
I’ve been looking for this for an hour now my music teacher showed me this in about fourth grade and it stuck with me ever since I’m long graduated now but so awesome I found it
How has the youtube algorithm only just suggested this master piece! My step dad proper got me into this kind of music a few years back but this was really awesome! I always find when I am walking or doing something there is a rhythm to what I am doing glad its not just me!
I've seen this little masterpiece only now. Thanks to my daughter inviting me to watch it. Thank you for making this film, I can only imagine how much did it cost to you in terms of project, realization and feelings. Thank you so much for uploading it publicly on YT. 😊🤗
Thanks Africa for your rhythm richness, for the jazz, the blues, the rock and roll, the salsa, the mambo, bomba, plena, guaguanco, thank you.
And the Samba?
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@Phil Rock and roll came from Jazz which originated from the answer and call style of music brought from enslaved Africans. So yes, those are of African origin and they just evolved in America.
don't forget life itself!!!
The life begun in the Ocean - not necessarily in Africa.
8:01 "We're not going to cut the throat of our culture. We're going to keep it alive. It will live on." Powerful!
My favorite part too!
@Sao Ham roman had no culture? What about slavic anglic germanic etc.
@Sao Ham besides that most of those tribes are just banging the drum and dancing en praying to a certain god
why dont you just go live with them?> one way ticket... just saying
@@5pandas512 why don't you open your buht and allow more pnss in?
I'm 13 years late but I'm really glad I've found this in 2024, it's giving me hope again for our world. Thank you
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I remember reading an old japanese book on the same subject. It spoke of combat but it also went on on how rythm permeates everything in life. What I find cool is how it's such a human way of measuring what you do, is not only a sound, or a movement, it's habits, tone of voice in a conversation, patterns of thought. I like how this video illustrates the broadness of the actual word and how surreal it must be to live among people that integrate harmonious rythms to their very core culture.
What's the book?
Great comment btw
beautifully put.
What was the book?
I don't know if science has proove for my idea. But I think , before our ancestors were able to speak, they used their bodies: Hunting, gathering, using first tools. Why shouldn't they have first used rhythmic body movements for communication? I think that's the origin of rhythm and dance in all our cultures. Or maybe that's just my Imagination. 🙂
Okay, I love the world again.
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❤ never give up
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Thank YOU Africa!!! You teach us the real thing! I lived there and since I came back I call Africa a "reality maker". I hope we could follow these footsteps, values and most of all radical truth!
it s only one part of Africa, myself am African but i don't know this performance!
Watch this off and on for nearly 10 years after we found it by accident. And everytime I watch it 'I cry at the beauty, fragility, resilience & conviction. We will not let them cut the throat of our culture. We will live. Like grasslands or the endless sky- ancient people & ancient culture live with this joy and very little materially being pushed to the margins.
I was about to post almost EXACTLY the same comment !!!! We are so lucky someone did this video... it
this was actually well directed, props to everyone involved
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5 💙✨
Everyоne whо calls оn the name оf the Lоrd will be saved. Rоmans 10:13 💙✨
Fоr with the heart оne believes untо righteоusness, and with the mоuth cоnfessiоn is made untо salvatiоn. Romans 10:10 ✝❤
I feel all percussionists should be required to watch this throughout their formal education. It is humbling and brings you back to earth. Thankful to watching this with my little boy.
Agreed💯
Oh yes its very earthly and spiritual the bible is full of music and wine why you think all of their eyes was blood red lol, playing that good music and drinking that good wine.
it’s so crazy how across cultures and continents humans share an innate sense of rhythm and can let our bodies become one with music. music and dance really are universal languages
That's because, according to DNA, we all come from Africa, and drums used to be as ubiquitous as cell phones. :) UA-cam doesn't let people post links, but check out the band "Black Uhuru" song "Whole World is Africa." :)
why dont you just go live with them?> one way ticket... just saying
@@5pandas512 That's rather rude Oskar, I am sure she is quite happy living where she is. I hope people don't tease you for your name and suggest you go live in a garbage can on Sesame street for being grouchy... :)
@@5pandas512 you posted this exact same comment to another person who was simply praising african culture. why dont you get a life? maybe you wont be so angry online
Music is from the devil.
Stunning. Could any one of us living today in the modern ways imagine how harmonious and pure and uplifting it would be to live this way? And the sheer genius of doing everything in rhythm!?! Absolutely tremendous? The village as one big family passing all this down through the ages? This is living a history in the present while creating a future. To live this way in such wisdom.....must be heaven on earth.
yep. Humanity has definitely taken a very wrong turn
Agree we veered off to the profit field and lost our natural souls
just think about how much rhythm you use in today's living ...barley, none , if any. Typing, speaking, walking. Not counting if you are a musician. People in the western culture rarely come together over rhythm unless it a concert. I mean it's such an important part of life and we simply threw it away. So sad.@@wilcoxdaniel9825
Such a masterpiece. Thanks to the algorythm for bringing me here, after almost 10 years. ❤❤❤❤
I was listening to Mongolian/Altai throat singing. This came up on my recommended as well. It was interesting and a nice added perspective to what I was already watching.
I am African and drums do something to me. The rhythm brings life to my veins. It speaks when words are not being said. It's frequency, it's vibrations, it's ontological mathematics. It makes us human!
wow such strong and beautiful words,, same here but i am european.. we are all the same really
I'm Irish and I get the same sensation from harps.
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I'm from Liverpool 'Irish family' and we're the same! When the beats hits shit goes down! DANCE OFF'S ALL OVER THE PLACE!😂😉❤️❤️
Sound is everything. Everything is sound. Even silence.
I have been using this video to begin my (non-major) Music class for 6 years. It all starts with rhythm and my class starts with this documentary!
why dont you just go live with them?> one way ticket... just saying
@@5pandas512 just saying what? i dont understand what your comment means
@@5pandas512 You have missed the whole point -you obviously lack understanding- and rhythm.
@@mrsblue3011 they lack it all that’s why they STEAL CULTURE!!! Just look at amerikkka
I love how they showed the production process of a traditional African drum
This video just changed my whole outlook on life.
My two and a half year old loves this video. He's really into all kinds of music and this video is one of his favorites. I guess rhythm speaks to all ages!
thats a nice compliment! I can see your child watching :) Honest audience...
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This film is addicting. The Malinke in particular are badly damaged by the slave trade. The film testifies to the great strength of the culture of this tribe, which has endured the worst persecution. Wonderful!!!!!
« Slave trade » is not the same intent as « persecution », please use precise words when touching tricky topics
@@sebastienh1100 In fact, the Malinke were persecuted, including by other tribes who also benefited from the slave trade and worked with the Europeans. After the persecution came the exploitation, in which various actors were able to earn a lot of money.
But the fact is that I am a musician and musicologist myself and wanted to pay the film a big compliment. You're being a little hair-splitting with my good intentions. For your information: www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/atlasderversklavung2021.pdf
@@sebastienh1100cope.
everything about the film is mesmerising. no other word for it.
love their concept of rhythm. if you extend that to societies and social environments, it talks about cohesion. on an individual level, it reminds you that every move you make is meaningful, and every step in the way is meant to pace yourself - that’s rhythm.
Ladys and gentlemen, music...mankind's universal languaje, literally.
oh, did you just get here?
we are not going to cut the throat of our culture...great words.
pos tha kanoume ta organa
Jeffrey Hogan
Now if negros can get on board with that and stop including non main kin, in our group that'll be even better
The reason why everything has rhythm is because rhythm is the sound of order and out of order comes art without order is chaos. This film is a masterpiece.
Well said!
I absoluetely adore this video
@Lilith .J art with no order is just noise.
Today in a primary school of Valencia, Spain, a bouch of little 6 years old children enjoy your video very much, Mr. Roebers you have to be proud about it :) thank you for this master piece, my favourit documentary ever! May God bless you.
A dear Deaf friend of mine died last year - and in his FB page, he mentioned this video: 'Our ancestor’s true blood of line. Keep your rhythm a live'. Rest in Peace and in rhythm my friend. Miss you & love you to eternity.
11 yrs old….thanks algorithmic gods for another one
yeah
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13 for me
It's amazing, Proud to be African. I hope the Malinke Tribe or Community also benefited from this project.
In which part of Africa the malike tribe lives? They are really amazing.
Beautiful African people... blessings
We have very similar rythms in Cuba, there is a ritual called Bembé that i's like this, I feel some nostalgia when I hear this and I'm not African
But we do not use djembe, we usually use tumbadoras:
ua-cam.com/video/npBC-3FyjoY/v-deo.html
I'm northern Canadian, my people use to play very similar music, whale bones, seal skin drums, after we smoke and play hockey💖🎶
BEAUTIFUL! I wonder if these people realize how much raw talent they have. Even the little ones, they seem to move and dance and play the music instinctually. The sense of community is so nice too!
Serious party time. They even take their hatchets to the dance floor.
This reminds me of the year I spent in Guinea when I was a teen. The Malinke and Susu people stayed in my heart forever as the best prophets of the idea that music is life. ❤️💛💚
This just proofs with music how we are still all connected to Africa, is insane cuz when you listen music from lots of different genres or parts of the world you can still listen some of those ryhtms even if is a little bit
@@acepumpkin5442 The Europeans use african rhythms heavily. Every American and European music you hear, except "classical" music, has African rhythms at it's roots. I think you just want to be racist.
@@acepumpkin5442 you got owned buddy
@@acepumpkin5442 what a loser. Imagine having your mind for a day. Yuck.
How can 7K people not like this? I feel like i want to have a beer with them and talk it out.
@@chrisrussell2358 Yeah? Well, that's just like your opinion, man.
@@chrisrussell2358 huh
so glad i found this video again. kinda feels like it should be recognized as high art somewhere
Same thing😊and I totally agree with u
yes while the performers themselves starve?
Our very breath and respiration have a rhythm. We are inherently musical, rhythmic creatures.
Namaste
And sound is vibration
Шикарные мысли❤
*You should never forget your culture, in this ever growing world.*
Never forget the dunedein passed king aragorn
We should never forget our ancestors
Fear of something ??? Should??? Loosing, missing ??? Go to the night King, take it easy, War isn't eternal, Love... 🖤✌️💫
Thank you King Aragorn of Minas Tirith
This made me tear up, I feel so proud to be human sometimes. It can be easy to be stripped away from that pride, but when I'm able to feel it, it's overwhelming
Yes there is so much in this short video that shows how a group of human beings is different from animals
I never fell to the "humans are a disease" bullshit. Much less to the animalization.
Who’s listening in 2023❤️
❤❤❤
mee
me 6/13/23! every morning
UA-cam be like: "Oh it's 2021 let's recommend this gem before everybody goes insane."
F. You.
Lmbo...
@@MrTPain Y though ?
I looked it up :)
lol
I don’t remember how many times I’ve come back to this over the years. But yea this is my culture y’all! Folks sometimes wonder why blacks are so good at rhythm; it’s because we’re born into it. As he rightly said, everything we do is rhythm. Nothing is done that is not rhythmic. Btw, we are told that music is rhythm, and rhythm is music. FYI, in African traditional dance, the drummer is not the one who dictates the rhythm, and it’s the dancer. If the dancer notices that the drummer is not picking up the pace, he’ll increase his movements in such a way that the drummer will understand that he’s falling behind. It’s the same way we do in church when playing drums with a lead voice of singers. Anyway, if music runs through our veins it’s because we’re born into rhythm.
Right. Rhythm gives the other parts of us the cue to go. The beat of the left foot signals the right. Without rhythm, we can’t know whose turn it is. That’s harmony. That’s Africa.
same here, i keep and keep coming back to this fine little film - i was not born into it, or if so, in a completely different way - i live in germany and i disvovered african music during the mid 70s, when i bought a record with traditional music on a flea market - at first i was disappointed, because it sounded so very alien to me, haha - but i was young and curious and i kept listening until i by and by began to understand a little here and there - then i had my first fave song and from there i went on - now i love the whole record - during the 80s and 90s we had a kind of wave of african bands and musicians coming over here and i saw countless of them live and was never disappointed - great musicans, brilliant singers and excellent dancers and performers, not a single fail, yessss... :-)
anyway, my perception of music is not too far from the one shown here, of course do i have a european approach - but the inspiration is there and it´s nice (btw. i have been a reggae musician for several decades)...
love and greetings from germany 🙋♂️
@@todo8328 that’s right!
@@friesiamans1966wow that’s great. So I guess you’ve heard Ladysmith Black Mambazo? They are my favorite South African Acapella group. Well, you’re a lucky man. Peace out!
@@marcustraore545 oh yes, i have heard them, they were among the first african artists that i heard, even before paul simon made them world-famous...
the second african record after the one with tradional music was one with south african jive - i loved it almost instantly and even started playing in that style - in the late 70s i even formed a band and we played on punk festivals and many punks jumped and gyrated merrily to that sound without even knowing what it was, haha...
some year ago or so i finally learned, that the sax player on that record, west nkosi, had also produced ladysmith black mambazo before they went to america - i knew them already from the third african record that i had "the soweto sampler" by the zensor, a guy from berlin, who went to soweto to record a load of garage bands...
i must say, i craved for african music, but in those days it was almost impossible to buy any here in germany...
the turning point came with king sunny adé´s live performance on german tv in 83 - hammer! after that african bands galore! saw him live two times, saw the mahotella queens live, saw omou sangaré live, sometimes i can hardly believe that this really happened.... :-)
i still wish to see rokia traoré live - you are a traoré? you are not related to her, are you?
nowadays my fave south african artist might be busi mhlongo, who i disvovered a few years ago - sadly she´s not alive anymore, she was such an impressive person and performer, i wish, i had seen her live in person...
to round it up, back in the early 90s i bought another south african record, a compilation of songs by different choirs like ladysmith black mambazo, mainly old shellac recordings, the oldest from somewhat 1911 or so, among them the original recording of "mbube" (=lion), after which the whole genre was named, but also some newer ones and ladysmith black mambazo... :-)
oh, boy, there is so much to tell, haha - one of my latest personal discoveries are blinky bill from nairobi ("jam now - simmer down"), and dr. namadingo ("mango") from malawi - when i looked for pictures of him i found out that he played here in germany in 2018! i wish i had known him then already - he was in hannover, not more than 30 kms from here - - - faint!
you are right: i am a blessed man, all this enriched my life!
thank you for your kind answer, it´s much appreciated... 🙋♂️
This is the most mesmerizing video I have seen in a long time. Wow. Thank you.
I actually spaced completely watching this. I feel like I traveled so far back, reunited with my anscestors and have all the answers to everything
im so glad i found this it was awesome!
I am making a film, a feature fiction, embodying nearly 70% of African culture traits and music. I don't know if that would interest you
I see the origin of Hip hop!! It's in the DNA it comes naturally every Black American need to see this video. The origin of Hip hop!! Amazing moma Africa. From Oklahoma.
Beautiful ear
Ive seen every movement in hip hop in this video..
You witnessed the origin of ALL music here
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
These wonderful people and their rhythm have spread all over the world. It is in all our musical today
If you wonder how, jazz / blues -> rock and roll -> most of our current western music
The roots of music
After 11 years, I hope every person featured in this film is doing fine now...
Get real. People don’t leave forever. That’s part of the rhythm of life.
@@sebastienh1100 greaving also
This video gives hints about why music was born from a world where mankind had no music.
This video re calibrates me. Like medicine, healing and restorative. Thank you for that 🫶🏾🕯️🗝️
Five years ago my music teacher showed me this video and I was very amazed. I haven’t done music for many years but I’m picking it up very recently. This video is a great inspiration for me to rededicate my life after depression👍
Wishing you all the best on your journey of healing. ❤
I was also depressed, lacking motivation and fearfull, really this has improved me
after 10 years, it finally broke thru the algo-rythm
your profile pic fits perfectly with your comment
😂😂😂
yup!!! i'm so glad the algo-rythm brought me to this
This comment is way under-liked
Yoooo straight facts
Life used to be simple. We used to live in harmony with nature. For every small advance in society we have lost so much. We have lost not only the purity of nature, but the purity of community. We are afraid of each other now. I hope for a world where we can return to our tribal roots and live in harmony again, just as our ancestors once did. A society built on constant growth is a disease which will destroy the world if left unchecked.
We evolved on our ability to kill each 'other', we always were afraid of each 'other', we are evolved to fear the 'other'. People who do not fear the 'other' have come to realize they are the same as the 'other', meaning they are still afraid of things they still consider 'other'. To get over this fear is to either conquer instinct and evolution, or know as much about 'other' things as you can until they are no longer 'other'.
@@sirsnek6562 too simple... Your idea is too simple. It acts as if there are no other influences on human behavior than some sort of hard encoded program that tells us, "act this way, don't act that way".
I don't want to argue with you. I also don't want to spoil the truth that is in your statement.
Instead I just hope that you are someone who believes in humanity. Who thinks whatever barriers that we face are surmountable!
Take care!
@@sirsnek6562 this isnt true at all, people exploited fear, we didn't evolve it. We weren't always afraid at all, that's white people crap
@@chompers11 I'm forced to rethink my generalized position on this due to what Kyu Kyu said, but what I said still holds true for wars accross time and place. Fear has been part of every war we know of, it is inevitble. Without fear of the other, there isn't hate of the other. And we *know* there has been LOTS of hate of the other, whether its:
the wars of the Byzantine Empire (anywhere that borders the mediterranian sea),
the wars of the Roman Empire (same thing but even more),
the wars of the Rashidun Caliphate (middle east, north africa, iberian pininsula (the reason spanish culture and language is slightly arabic)),
the wars of the Ottoman Empire (basically what rome had and a little more east, less west),
the wars of the Mongol Empire (holy hell they almost took over the world)
and ALLLL of the wars for territory and dominance that took place within the mountains surrounding 'China',
and all the native american wars (the ones between native americans, as well as the ones against europeans).
Every single one filled with hate for 'the less developed/entitled' and 'the barbaric invaders'. Fear was indeed exploited in areas where information was more easily shared (relevant right now), and that wasn't just euro. We may not have always been afraid, all the time, of anything we didn't understand, but we were always afraid of each other when we put on different jerseys... and for good reason: they were afraid too.
..humanity at some of its finest .. beautiful to see ... beautiful film - thank-you .. much ❤ 🙏🏽 (🇨🇦)
Je suis profondément touchée par ce chef d'oeuvre. La mise en scène, les couleurs, les rythmes et movements. Cela évoques mes souvenirs de l'Afrique avec les Mandinka, la danse, mes promenades dans la brousse. Cette documentation doit être en Guinée, où, â mon avis, ce trouves la culture la plus riche des Mandinka.
Très, très beau. Merci beaucoup. Je suis fascinée!
I am from srbia, westerners caling balcan but by the ancient Serbian name is helm and its door of the worlds we call!!!anyway I am very impressed by the power of those people in video , I see they are worriers who live in harmony with nature of this world !!! unfortunately west European people in their chase for welth and money they destroyed many nations and cultures wich speek about their own culture !! but I am glad this African people survived colonization of African continent !!greetings from srbija !!
+MrDex369 I think he means warriors not worriers!............surely
+MrDex369 U said it well >not just N eu HOWEVER capitalist CLASS have LONG cannibalized our planet and PeopleS migrate away DISPLACED by war & its fall out i was displaced after ww2 as a child { uk }THEN I HAD issue w/that but many a friend from every where now SHARING AMAZING TEACHINGS dance & custom MAY the Human Family learn what is truly precious & priceless b4 nothing remains of OUR collective striving
>LET us END the longest running war in history the class war <
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+Xavier Herrera love this
man thank you! 😢
Lorsqu’on fait du jogging sans les écouteurs on se rends compte qu’en écoutant le rythme de notre course on se fatigue moins. Des fois même avec les écouteurs le cerveau réplique automatiquement le rythme de notre course.
"Tout c’est des rythme". Le chants des oiseaux le matin, celui des sauterelles le soir même lorsqu’on mâche un chewing-gum on le fait à un rythme. Je vous souhaite une belle vie sous un rythme qui vous convient, a chacun son rythme ne suit pas celui de autres 🌹
Incredible. What is also fascinating to me is the dance performance at the end really has echoes that you see are present in Capoeira
Just happen to wonder what we are, just a bit, and soon you realize we’re all African :)
(sorry for very likely utter fucked up English, frog team here…)
Absolutely hypnotic, fastest 10 minutes of my life
The Editor needs GRAMMY AWARDS
Not the editor, but the performers
@@semabera2485 u are right but rem these events were captured differently in each rythm n later combined together
@@semabera2485 No, the editor deserves it
@@semabera2485 Most of them are not performing. They are living. Different scenes are woven together seamlessly. All scenes are beautiful, but the one(s) who choreographed this video need to be applauded.
👍👍👍 all participants deserve to be honorated
Awesome relief from CNN and Fox! This is great.
Fascinating. I wonder why this one is being recommended by the algorithm now, twelve years after posting. But, I don't have any complaints.
Absolutely stunning beautiful film and music construction that shows how LIFE is movement is rhythm. We have forgotten this in many countries. Very revitalising tonic for Western depressive malaise. Thank you 🙏🏽
life without music is not worth living.
Natural people who live with the Earth. The rythym of their life is amazing. I love traditional, tribal and natural sounds of the cultures of our World. Nothing false or fake about it. The energy of the movements draws you in. This was a real treat to find. Awesome.
Great comment, I totally agree 😊
Love this comment
Культура любого народа - это великая ценность, это сама жизнь, ее необходимо беречь и передавать из поколения в поколение! Замечательный фильм!
the beauty and the fire of the world lives on in this rythym, this sort of fun, it's something i hope our future holds.
This video may be ten years old but the rhythm still exists
Worth watching
Bi9g io t
You have a beautiful culture and I hope you do keep it.
The rest of the World has lost their culture which means they are lost.
Thankful for your determination of keeping your roots alive. Love each of you sending fruitful energy.
How can you say that when you live among my People?? The Ojibwe??? We come from the Mountain in Thunder Bay...
The first world steals everything from Africa...its music, its dance, and its resources. The ravages of colonialism and neocolonialism leave their ugly mark. We owe so much to this continent, but we still continue to take. I feel the rhythm...the rhythm of revolution, do you?
finally the world is changing, maybe we're seeing a future without western powers stealing from others soon, lets hope so!
@@faraondj3125 for wood and paper
revolution is a dirty word and is normaly use by men looking to take something from others
@@crustyjuggler382 to take something back*
This video shows me how we coexist with nature through rhythm. The wind has a rhythm, water has a rhythm, trees and grass when the wind blows has a rhythm. The crackling of a fire has rhythm. Be in rhythm ❤️💛💚✊🏾🖤
Wow that was breathtaking. This is living. So much seems dead, unreal around us. This is what being alive looks like. Thank you for making my heart beat.
You read my mind! This is amazing💖
Je suis une professeur brésilienne et j'enseigne l'histoire. Je suis également percussionniste d'un rythme afro brésilien appelé maracatu. Je regarde cette vidéo depuis 11 ans. Il a été mon inspiration pendant 11 ans. Merci.
I had to watch this again. Lovely. We humans, despite all our faults, can also be pretty cool. Thanks.
cheers from hot Vienna, Scott
Thank you for keeping your culture alive. I come from what I feel is a cultureless country or a country with toxic culture and it makes me feel very hopeful for human life to know that there are people who know the worth of keeping this alive!
I keep returning to this, for anyone who wants to understand rhythm, or timing, this is music in it's best form, African music influences all music, we all came from Africa and even Classical artists learned music from the basics. The Rhythm of life itself, thanks to Africa!
Celtics have their music with that Stonehenge has an older age than the Pyramidvof Giza. The first rhythm as Walter Russell and perhaps Tesla would agree-the heart beat as the first rhythm we first listen.
@@Katharsis540 totally agreed on the heart, its our inner beat and it's why we walk or run or swim the way we do, we make sure the part of our body that is most important stays as steady as possible, the heart also gives our other senses an inborn metronome, so music and rhythms are the earliest forms of entertainment, before, after, or alongside humor?
That's exactly what I thought. Their beautiful culture of rhythm and music has changed the history of all music and dance.
@@Katharsis540 do you really think that African culture started in Egypt?
Music at the heart is the realest. Before black people where allowed to break through with their music in the mainstream, white america was just listening to shitty church music. Even the banjo is African. Also thank African rhythm and heart for rock n roll, jazz, blues, funk and literally all the great music of the 1900s. Something deep within us needed these beats that our African brothers brought with them through all the years of hard ship. Words can’t describe how this vid makes me feel
I agree, every where I walk or run, I always walk with groove and it makes life more bearable and flowing
And the funny looks just make me smile all the more. :D
yep, i do it while i listen to music while i do my hw
This is the coolest video ive seen in a long time.
I learnt a lot from these Brothers and Sisters….from this video. May The Spirit protect them and their Soul. Amen.
This is the coolest industrial mix I've ever heard.
Some of the best percussion instruments comes from Africa...so powerful...world owe a lot to Africa
Everything in their life has rhythm. Love every bit of it.
Not just their lives but all of our lives!
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All life
Africa has the best of culture they all learned and still learn from mama Alkebulan proud to be African ❤❤❤❤❤
Still watching this over and over again... still love it. The energy of this video is timeless
What an energy..what a culture..what a togetherness..please never lose it..there is just nothing in so called modern outside world.
How beautiful it must be to live in a society that is not obsessed with consumerism but in living a life!! Nice video!!!
I grew up in a poor rural small town ... When your not engulfed in images of what you don't have then your happy with the little that you do have.
Lmao until you got to take a shit in the community shit shack
Then you are truly free, instead of being constantly feeling you need things to be a “whole” human being.
@@skuminc.5118 it was two story and brick ... What more could you ask for? Lmao
Yeah.
Desse maravilhoso documentário eu tirei algumas importantes lições para a minha vida percussiva (que me influenciaram e influenciarão para sempre)!!! Parabéns a cultura Malinke e aos mestres percussionistas do documentário!!! (Daniel Cartaxo Penalva).
Огромное спасибо! Фильм очень впечатляет, наводит на раздумья и мотивирует заниматься музыкой!
The lady at 1:30 is the definition of beauty.
I thought the same thing. Very beautiful, and may God protect her.
I agree.we make a choice in defining beauty.i.e be carefull of distortion.
I call it Deja Tube when I read a comment at the very same time I have the same thought. Just happened.
Native American over here.
Anishinaabe - Ojibwe saulteux
The shells on the speakers necklace.
We call those The great miigis shells (cowrie shell; also spelled megis)
Story goes they appeared out of the sea and brought warmth and light to the people by reflecting the rays of the sun. At this time, the people were given the great-rite the Midewiwin in which life was restored and prolonged.
The oral tradition also tells that a powerful miigis went into the sea and then returned with a prophecy for the people. According to this prophecy, the people needed to move west to keep their traditional ways alive. The prophecy told of a time when there would be new settlements by the sea of a people who would be incapable of understanding the traditional ways.
This video has been somewhat of a landmarker for me... Something I look for, to know I'm in the right place.
No matter where I am I look for the rythme.
Miigwetch! Thanks for reading
Ps I found this video when it was released 🌑🖤🌕
@@smellslikegrapes7813 wow that is amazing to know! What do you think it means for us right now?
@@nertiasolutions5386 the shell and the speaker remind me of a prophecy and teaching called "the seven fires prophecy"
It's collection of stories from roughly 400-600 years old, over a span of a couple generations within this time in the past, predictions for the future of our home land were made and they have all come true so far except for the 7th and last fire/era.
These prophecies are long so I will only list the last one and those who are privy to it may find the other six by looking up "the seven fires prophecy"
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The Seventh Prophet that came to the people long ago was said to be different from the other prophets. This prophet was described as "young and had a strange light in his eyes" and said:
In the time of the Seventh Fire New People will emerge. They will retrace their steps to find what was left by the trail. Their steps will take them to the Elders who they will ask to guide them on their journey. But many of the Elders will have fallen asleep. They will awaken to this new time with nothing to offer. Some of the Elders will be silent because no one will ask anything of them. The New People will have to be careful in how they approach the Elders. The task of the New People will not be easy.
If the New People will remain strong in their quest the Water Drum of the Midewiwin Lodge will again sound its voice. There will be a rebirth of the Anishinabe Nation and a rekindling of old flames. The Sacred Fire will again be lit.
It is this time that the light skinned race will be given a choice between two roads. One road will be green and lush, and very inviting. The other road will be black and charred, and walking it will cut their feet. In the prophecy, the people decide to take neither road, but instead to turn back, to remember and reclaim the wisdom of those who came before them. If they choose the right road, then the Seventh Fire will light the Eighth and final Fire, an eternal fire of peace, love, brotherhood and sisterhood. If the light skinned race makes the wrong choice of the roads, then the destruction which they brought with them in coming to this country will come back at them and cause much suffering and death to all the Earth's people.
@@nertiasolutions5386 I think it means we are all connected in ways we can no longer easily recognise, that when we loose the ability to see these things it will become very difficult to resonate with eachother and therefore making things fall out of harmony and overall creating a rythme that lacks the fundamental principles of good music or life
Like because all is rythme and things have been set In motion. From time in memorial... to forget Is to replace. like the original teachings are all about movement and tempo and responsibilities.
And we'll loose those around the same time we are able to see how we're all one family. No matter how big the tree every leafs roots lead to the same foundation... Earth and water,
Humour comes from the Latin word humor meaning moisture
And humility comes from the Latin word humus meaning earth.
Stuff like this is how we forget the spirituality of our ancestors...
The flow or flux of time.
Lux is Latin for light.
Might aswell list the Latin word for air/breath as it also can mean soul...
Anima leading to words like "animate / in-anima-te"
Movement is life, study how life has does and will move and we can create a song that never ends, in a good way s
There are stories that say god near the beginning of time took the four parts of mother earth (wind water fire air) and she breathed them into the megis shell, in order to create the Anishinaabe!
This shell is called the money cowrie in English as it was used to trade with Nigerians in the 16th century to trade there, as it was a tradition form of currency there aswell as in Asia before coins.
Incredible! I remember first time I saw it around 12 years ago, still mind blowing and one of the best things on rhythm ever seen! Greatly done 🔥🔥🔥
12 years later, still amazing. Thanks a ton for making this!
Our heritage is so beautiful, and our spirit is unbreakable.
this has officially become my favourite short film of all time.
I’ve been looking for this for an hour now my music teacher showed me this in about fourth grade and it stuck with me ever since I’m long graduated now but so awesome I found it
My music teacher made us listen to this
smart teach
This video has a lot of messages. Is until now the most important video I ever seen in you tube.
Thank you so much for posting.
Whoever did the editing for this did a top notch job.
How has the youtube algorithm only just suggested this master piece! My step dad proper got me into this kind of music a few years back but this was really awesome! I always find when I am walking or doing something there is a rhythm to what I am doing glad its not just me!
音楽の根源というか、生活から生まれたものなんだなって感じる素敵な映像
The best ten mins on youtube since eight years of searching and recommendetions..
With all my heart and soul I hope his culture never ever dies.. because the truth is this culture can bring us back to life🙏🙏💜💜💜
African history and culture is so wide and varied but so incredibly overlooked...
Imen!
I've seen this little masterpiece only now. Thanks to my daughter inviting me to watch it. Thank you for making this film, I can only imagine how much did it cost to you in terms of project, realization and feelings. Thank you so much for uploading it publicly on YT. 😊🤗
Какие красивые, трудолюбивые и сильные люди. Создают свою культуру, свой быт и во всём чувствуется их сила духа и чувство прекрасного❤